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[lizajane999 <lizajane999@xxxxxxxxx>]

I had this happen too. Its not a bug in ubuntu-eee it is an ubuntu
thing.

I was able to fix it by following this advice from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=164581
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if you cant do that, an idea would be put a live cd, you favorite linux live cd will do.

Mount the hard drive.
chroot the mounted drive.
remember its path specific (chroot /mnt/hda, not chroot hda)
then
Code:

su

Code:

passwd root

set password.
reboot
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then you can use the password you just made to run fsck an fix it.

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 broken filesystem - give root password for maintenance
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/276852
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Status in Ubuntu Eee: New

Bug description:
Asus EEE PC 901
ubuntu-eee 8.04.1

I did unclean shutdown and during fsck routine on sda1 (ext2) fsck dies with exit status 4

Then it asking me to give root password and obliviously I can not do it.  

What is my next actions?